skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is type of diabetes that is simply hereditary and that is all there is to it.

This is a common misconception. Type 1 diabetes cases are more often acquired with no family history, there are some genetic associations but it is actually less strong than Type 2 (insulin resistance/diet related diabetes) where family history is a substantial risk factor. Pregnancy (gestational) diabetes isn’t just pregnancy related either as it is more likely in those with metabolic syndrome/obesity and is associated with type 2 as well, so it is also partially diet related.

> Not all diabetes is from sugar.

I would go further and just say no diabetes is “from sugar”, it’s just a completely uselessly simplistic way of looking at it (I know this was in response to GP comment). It’s not like low carb diets even prevent some people from getting type 2.

Type 2 diabetes is a disease of acquired insulin resistance for which excessive consumption of high glycemic index food (eg processed food with high sugar content) is a major risk factor, but not the only one.
> Still, a savvy eBay seller could flip the processors and RAM across the machines for around $700,000 (£550,000), making a hefty profit.

> At a conservative estimate of $25 million for the array to be constructed, the auction sale is only 2% of the sticker price of Cheyenne.

Honestly $480k sounds like a fair price. This is 8 year old hardware, in any reasonable depreciation scheme the book value is $0. If you just flip it you probably break about even, considering that prices are not going to be able to sell 8000 of those Xeon processors at their current market price.

If you just want the compute, this supercomputer is equivalent to about $70000 in modern GPUs (assuming your compute needs fit the processing model of GPUs), so even with free power it's not terribly attractive to buy the system to run it yourself.
nah someone else in the thread already did that.
Why is it assumed the standard model of physics is all encompassing in the first place?The standard model hasnt managed to explain all of physics even. Unless you can explain consciousness with physics, its only reasonable to assume something additional
Hymn for Walpurgisnacht
God bless GDPR, I haven’t seen this technology yet and hopefully will never see. Does availability of such data/tech contribute to the discussion where it’s better to start the company - EU or USA?
Travel to some other american countries and ask
them what they think of the appropriation of the word. Not everyone is a fan.

I don't really get how you think a company using the name of the country is wrong but somehow a country appropriating the name of the continent is just fine?
Isn't it known that 800 kcal diet (brutal) will reverse T2D? Iirc, 90% remission, 12 patient study, nejm article
"Yes, it is true, as Albert Einstein said, you can live your life as if everything is a miracle, or as if everything is ordinary.

It is also true, as Niels Bohr said, that the opposite of an ordinary truth is a falsity, but the opposite of a profound truth may also be another profound truth!

Now, recall that in Hamlet, William Shakespeare said: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

From these three quotes from three famously wise people, I have to conclude that I may choose to experience reality as very common and ordinary, or as divinely miraculous, and this choice can yield one of two profoundly different results: either the experience of misery and boredom, or joy and ecstasy!" -ER Close
And the other reason for dlls for common system libraries, security. If a security bug is found in a dll that is shared amongst a lot of programs, that can be updated without having to recompile all the programs.
That's kind of my concern as well. Hoping it does survive.
It’s an engineering test platform for long duration space flight. Along with the development of reusable rockets we are now almost to the point of being ready to actually go somewhere and do more than just plant a flagpole.

Apollo was ridiculously ahead of its time and was not sustainable. The entire stack was disposable and it’s pure luck that we never lost a crew. We needed a project like the ISS to do the real work to figure out how to live in space and build long lasting space hardware.

The biggest shortcoming of the project is that we never tried centrifugal gravity. There were plans for a module but it never got there.
I feel that’s not quite right. The writing appears to indicate that circling a carcass is the small minority. They’re finding the carcasses by smell of decay.

I’ve read elsewhere vultures are actually good signals of gas leaks for this reason.

They don’t have much of a reason to circle a carcass they intend to eat unless perhaps it’s a lagging indicator and they’re leaving the carcass. They don’t circle dying things because they don’t have the means to detect dying things.

I’m not convinced circling vultures is a good sign that there’s a carcass below them.
I said "who or what" in anticipation of this exact tiresome semantic game. Use whichever word you prefer, it's irrelevant to my point.

My point is that qualia exist. You can call them an illusion, but we still "feel" them. Why are we able to feel anything, illusory or real?

My ontology does not require "privileged subjects". I make no claims about where qualia may or may not exist outside of human minds. I merely acknowledge that they do exist in the human mind, the one place where they can be observed and self-reported. And I think the question of what produces them is worth investigating. Unfortunately any discussion is drowned out by the thought-terminating cliche, "it's an illusion".

What exactly do you mean by an "illusion", anyway? Do you mean that I'm programmed by evolution to believe and behave as if I have internal experiences, but I actually don't? I would beg to differ, but I suppose by your reasoning, that's exactly what a befuddled meat robot such as myself would say.
Sort of. It's actually worse. It gets to claim privately owned when being government is inconvenient; it gets to claim delegated authority from government when that's convenient.
If youre not interested in the discussion then simply dont reply rather than being rude
For those that are interested but perhaps not aware of this similar project, Dafny is a "verification-aware programming language" that can compile to rust: https://github.com/dafny-lang/dafny
I don't believe that I have a religious bone in my body. I do sometimes wonder if it's possible that the doomerism is some sort of sublimated religious thing for me, but I think it's that I just believe both the scientists and the economists; the scientists that we are heading for catastrophic consequences if we do not rapidly draw down carbon (starting a decade or two ago preferably), and the economists that it would be disastrous if we do so. It leaves humanity between a rock and a hard place. It probably doesn't help that I live in South Texas which in my life has seen summers go from being uncomfortably hot to dangerous.

It's not an easy thing to accept, though I think it helps greatly that I don't have and never wanted children; still I'd prefer that the collective children of humanity have a future they can look forward to.
Iirc diabetes is technically "sugar in the pee" so all diabetes must be linked to some sugar metabolism at some point.
You may be soon, I will continue to buy the real thing until they outlaw that too in the name of saving the planet (er, I mean, implementing 21st century sumptuary laws).
https://crittercontroloftampa.com/blog/do-cats-get-rid-of-ra...
Probably because if you're actually into Jesus, as in, what is taught by him in the Bible and not the bastardized evangelical prosperity gospel white Jesus that Americans are into, you wouldn't really seek out money apart from having enough to live on.

Also worth noting that being active in an organization like a church provides one with a sizable community of people, many of whom are probably at least doing okay, and depending which church, can be quite wealthy and they will automatically find you more trustworthy because you are in "their group," so fraud is baseline easier to execute. And, in the odd event you are caught out, a well performed "reformation" will have you as a in-good-standing member of that community again, and probably benefiting from the charity of it's members in short order.

This is a big part of why MLM/pyramid schemes, the Mormons, and the state of Utah are so deeply intertwined.

And I mean, let's not leave out the obvious one: people big on magical thinking aren't generally the best at critical thinking.

This is not to say that religious people are the only ones who can be scammed, that's of course nonsense. But people who believe things like "god has a plan" and indulge in the just world fallacy freely and "everything happens for a reason" are on balance just plain easier to manipulate, and even if as that one quoted pastor says, that Hwang is a true believer, well that could just mean he believes his schemes are god's plan, that his actions are god's creation, that what he has done is what he was put on this earth to do, and all that. He could be a swindling liar or a true believer, it doesn't matter. How many people have done diabolical things in our history believing whatever deity they believe in had created them to do it? It's just motivated reasoning. You believe in a just and mighty god, and you have ideas for how to do anything, steal from people, amass wealth, harm people, whatever, and it just so happens that you find all the passages from your god that cosign what it is you already wanted to do? No kiddin, weird how that always works out.
Thingino: Camera firmware derived from OpenIPC focused on the Ingenic SoC
Steel is the best material for certain scuba applications due more to buoyancy characteristics than strength. Firefighters typically use composite tanks for SCBA now, which are stronger but too buoyant for diving.

Layers of dissimilar materials are often problematic due to galvanic corrosion, different rates of heat expansion, and water intrusion between layers.
Why avoid? If you can detect, buy the stock and sell it back to them 30min before close at their inflated price.
Seems an interesting question, I googled for it and found a StackOverflow discussion...

Just.. Wow. The ignorance of people is shocking. Some guy even said that it's not possible because a DLL can contain an entry point which is called when the DLL is loaded and a static library has no such thing... well nothing prevents me from manually calling such entry point from my main function. At the end it's all executable code, and it's absolutely possible to relocate some addresses and repackage the code as a static library. It's just that no one with the knowledge had a need to do it.
>chat bots

Ignoring Alphafold, moderna partnering with openai, the new class of antibiotics, etc etc. There's a lot more to ai than chat bots. That's a disingenuous reduction.

I agree that it's a bold bet though, burning how many ever billions a year on the hope that ai can help us solve medicine and fusion and climate change.
"Uber makes first operating profit after racking up $31.5bn of losses"

https://www.ft.com/content/dae2b90e-1ba0-4e8f-aabc-34aae4ca0...
Egyptian Pyramids, Sphinx close to public for tech billionaire's wedding
Who knows - it’s just fake internet points. Hard to get worked up about.
I think that people might be using "trick" in two different senses.

There's a "trick" to legitimate breaking in that the practitioner is choosing materials and techniques that lend themselves to breaking, but that doesn't mean that the actual break is faked.

On the other hand, it's also possible to fake a break. For example, you can cut a piece of ice in half, put some water on each end of the cut, and stick them back together in the freezer so that the ice appears to be solid but actually has a weak spot.

There can also be an element of showmanship. Even if a martial artist has done a break dozens of times, during a demo they might make a show of having to hype themselves up for the break, tensing their muscles with a dramatic hiss of their breath, etc.
Yes, because there's no option to negotiate, placate or convince the mosquito to leave. The bites can cause allergic reactions, and even just a nasty itchy bite lasts a quarter of their lifetime. I get nasty reactions when they bite my hands that last for longer than the mosquito lives as an adult!

And it can be even worse, in some areas of the world a mosquito bite can indirectly kill you. I think it's pretty much the only situation where it's justified. Unless we can invent a better solution at least.
Taiwan has millions of cyberattacks daily. The world should be paying attention
I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed just learning python right now can the wizards explain how this would work? Isn't data stored in memory super random so the attacker would need to upload an image multiple times to get sensitive data? Or does the webp image itself have code that will be run and can retrieve the data?
Agreed. Raising a price to its optimum level is what markets do for a good reason: reserving goods for those who actually want them the most.

It is true a more efficient market would have original sellers finding that optimal sale price, but when they can’t, getting some “help” from resellers does maximize value to buyers by sending goods where they are most appreciated or needed.

And resellers also signal to anyone paying attention, the true value of goods. So sellers that look around have an easier time choosing optimal pricing as well.

If sellers need more sophisticated tools to do that, that would seem like a net positive business opportunity for a seller or reseller to create those tools for others to use.

But complaining that less efficient markets had advantages to particular people, while ignoring that optimal pricing is THE core service open markets provide to allocate goods to everyone’s overall greatest benefit, doesn’t make sense.
The Shunting Yard Algorithm
Your intuition about mentally distressed people doesn't always apply, sometimes it does.

It helps to have mindfulness / be able to center yourself in the present. Finding peace in surrender to things you can't control.

The purpose of what I said is all about illuminating the immateriality of most chains holding people back from peace. Relative comparisons / regrets / expectations for self and others. How many torments do people grasp on to that are safe to let go? This is a personal investigation that I can't answer for others, but I think the answer approaches 100%.

If some aspect of a practice doesn't help you, don't do it! I doubt any humanity preserving practice completely eliminates lifes challenges, there's quite a number of tools for returning from a bad place to a peaceful, useful perspective. Explore to find your recipe.
DDoSaaS
It's possible yes, but not really..
Rapamycin: Could a simple pill add years to your life?
There’s a very big difference between being a Christian and preaching to the world about it constantly. Out of the 2.4 billion only a fraction insist on letting you know it in everything they do.
Impressive, countries that are not capitalist, or not entirely capitalist, do not perform well on capitalist metrics, like "market freedom", or "economic freedom". Who could have guessed...?
Back in my day we cooperated to advance medicine and science with folding@home. How times change.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home
For a number of years now, work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a transmission that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such an instrument is the turbo encabulator.

Now basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance.

feel free to downvote as per rules of HN; I just couldn't resist :)
Even the original NY Times story was I heard from somebody who heard from somebody... Did the reporter talk to the angry dad? Who did they talk to?
In my experience Google’s OSS projects have a high bar and have a less kafkaesque leadership than Google products. Now, one issue is that all tech that’s derivative of Google, ie Bazel, Go or k8s, tends to have “blind spots” where some parts are ignored because it’s not a need internally. The prime example would be Go’s utter garbage dependency management prior to go mod, which came very late. This wasn’t much of a priority for Google because they had their monorepo. (Nowadays it’s all dandy though). Conversely, what oss language writes sanitizers, race detectors, coverage checkers, migration tooling etc? Only the big guys do, and that can be quite nice for the rest of us.

Anyway, Flutter! Yes technically it’s an “open source project” but really it’s halfway to product/platform, no? That’s probably a bad sign (not Googles fault but run-of-the-mill oss maintainers don’t typically excel at product and design decision making). Dart? Also probably a bad sign for obvious reasons. And if Google abandons it, I imagine there’s a lot of infra (for cross platform testing etc) that goes away, and that’s assuming Google gives flutter away to the community instead of staffing it with a skeleton crew until it fizzles out. (Maybe I’m missing something in how it’s governed though, let me know)

Yeah, personally I don’t think flutter can survive without the Google breathing apparatus. But it’s not impossible. We really need and deserve something like flutter. But is there enough value over Tauri/Electron etc where people can reuse their frontend stack sanely? I think it depends on how well the competition catches up with mobile support, which is the current pain point.

Disclaimer: ex-google, somewhat recent contributor to (and user of) tauri.
> Also note that HbA1c tests aren't perfect for diagnosing type 2 diabetes and can > have false positives or false negatives.

When we do workups on pts suspected of diabetes, we use the following criteria.

- Iron deficiency anemia workup to confirm accuracy of HbA1C

- HbA1C ≥6.5%

- FPG ≥126mg/dL (7.0 mmol/L). Fasting is defined as no caloric intake for at least eight hours

- Two-hour plasma glucose ≥200mg/dL (11.1 mmol/L) during an oral glucose tolerance test

- In a patient with classic symptoms of hyperglycemia or hyperglycemic crisis, a random plasma glucose ≥200mg/dL (11.1 mmol/L)

I would like to redo the diagnostic criteria to include their BMI.
You not seeing does not mean it's not used. Despite all my attempts at educating her on the matter, my wife still signs up for pretty much every newsletter and browses mostly from her Google Phone. This leads to things like having her discussing about Ikea furniture with a friend and less than 10 minutes later being shown an Ikea ad on the TV while watching YouTube.
probably very basic... so don't run it on anything that has your own data on it (if you're an AI startup, definitely don't run it on your research cluster).
You can’t flip the CPUs instantly, but if you’re a company that supplies older parts to people who need them, and can stock them on the shelf, you ought to be able to get most of the market value - eventually.

I’ve paid for a motherboard of a off-lease hardware because even though it was about the price of a tune new off-lease server, it was simpler for me than rebuilding the OS for a newer piece of hardware. And data center equipment is so fast to swap even motherboards. If a CPU burned out in this I’d just get another.
I don't know of anyone who thinks any idea can solve any problem instantly. And I don't see where I've expressed any view of the complexity or simplicity of anything. The discussion I thought we were having is whether it is wise to try a technical solution.

Iodized salt is a good example of a technical solution success story, and the one that was top of mind for me too. I don't think anyone thinks we should have waited for the underlying social problems to clear themselves. It certainly points out that these solutions need to be implemented well and have government support in order to be successful, but that's exactly why people are so upset about the political setbacks to golden rice.
I reckon privacy is a lost cause except for diehards like me. For by far the vast majority of people find the so-called freeware offered by Google et al just too convenient to resist.

For Google et al the tiny minority of us who've achieved some degree of privacy aren't worth worrying about, and we as a group aren't going to grow any larger for reasons that achieving a reasonable degree of privacy is a far too onerous a job for the majority of people, moreover most would consider their phones broken after such privacy modding.

For instance, the phone I'm typing on now hasn't yet been rooted but that largely doesn't matter, it's reasonably private (but not completely so) with the following tweaks: first, it has no Google account (probably the most important tweak of all), all apps except for a few F-droid ones have internet access disabled (their calls to the internet are diverted to a VPN nul location by a firewall), all Google apps are disabled including Google Play Services and especially Chrome, no non-F-droid app has access to background data, and as a precaution the disabled Google apps have all permissions denied/turned off, in effect they have access to nothing, neither the internet nor hardware. These tweaks send both the Play Services and the apps that rely on it into spasms and they keep bleeting notifications to turn Play Services back on or the apps won't work, this bleeting is most annoying but it too is easily remedied by disabling notifications from the offending apos. Finally, my F-droid browsers have JavaScript disabled (there's more but that'll do for now).

Wirh these tweaks the phone still works fine for me, calls and messaging all work OK, so too do GPS, WiFi, the internet along all phone sensors and my non-Gmail (POP) email account.

That's about the minimum one needs to do to achieve even a modicum of privacy on one's phone. That said, a phone so tweaked is essentially useless to the vast majority who expect Google, Facebook and similar apps to work (if you want privacy you just can't use them). That the vast majority cannot do without these Big Tech apps is why I believe privacy is essentially dead.

Incidentally, some may be interested to know that many (but not all) apps that complain about not working if Play Services are turned off actually do still work. What Google and developers don't tell you is that these apps use the Play Services to report your activities to Google and the world, it's a key reason why I nuke Play Services.
Not to be confused with the Futurama episode named after this theory, written by Bob Odenkirk, and that definitely lives rent free in my mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tale_of_Two_Santas
Their unpredictability makes it more terrifying to future whistleblowers.
SAT is an NP-complete problem. Doing an exhaustive search is very time-consuming. An SMT or SAT solver uses heuristics to make that process quicker for practical problems.

It looks like there are some TLA+ implementations that do use SMT solvers under the hood.
Ego-maniacs rarely retire quietly. He's dead.
That's a fair point, Twitter's certainly not what it used to be. That said, there are still a surprisingly number of large companies using it, and a fair few them still run ads there. Not sure when they'll move to Mastodon/Threads/BlueSky/whatever, but it hasn't seemingly happened quite yet.

Either way, I'd say the best advice in any case would be "be very difficult to ignore, to the point the company's reputation takes a hit if they don't resolve the issue".
Fun fact - if you search your file system for idleness.txt you'll probably find it includes quite a few copies as npm/node likes including it in its packages. I seem to have 30 on my macbook.